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Nicole Neroulias grew up in Briarcliff Manor, NY, and graduated from Cornell University and the Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism. In November 2007, she traveled with her father, retired Col. Andonios Neroulias, to Vietnam with a group of other veterans from the Lower Hudson Valley, an experience she chronicled in The Journal News’ Return to Vietnam series.
Nicole previously covered religion and city news in Cyprus, Connecticut and California, where she earned several fellowships and prizes, including a national Religion Newswriters Association award. She joined The Journal News in early 2007 and also teaches journalism at Columbia.
E-mail Nicole Neroulias at nnerouli@lohud.com
The U.S. Navy’s newest San Antonio class amphibious transport dock – LPD ship has been named “New York.” More than seven tons of steel salvaged from the World Trade Center wreckage was melted and formed to make the bow stem of the ship, symbolizing “the spirit and resiliency of the people of New York,” [...]
Nothing says “we support you – and hope you come home soon” like thousands of boxes filled with beef jerky, wet wipes, comic books and phone cards, right?
For the fifth time in two years, Jennie McFarland is organizing a “Support Our Troops Drive” in Larchmont, assembling care packages for soldiers stationed in Iraq and [...]
On my recent trip to Vietnam, several veterans bitterly recalled facing discrimination and trouble finding work when they had returned from their combat tours in the 1960s and early 1970s. They’re determined that soldiers returning from Afghanistan and Iraq get more help than they did, and some schools and employers seem to have gotten the [...]
Seems like Vietnam veteran and former Spring Valley police chief Howard Goldin can’t get enough of returning to Vietnam: two months after my father and I joined him and a group of veterans and Rotary Club members on their last humanitarian tour there, he’s getting ready to head back with more supplies.
Goldin, his wife Doris, [...]
There are dozens of organizations for veterans, so we’re counting on our readers to help us get to know all of them. Post a comment (click on the “Comments” link at the end of this post) about any military organization you belong to in Rockland, Putnam or Westchester counties, and we’ll link to the group’s [...]
Added 2/22: Here’s the link to Sarah Netter’s story about this event in today’s Journal News.
I must have jinxed myself with yesterday’s post about breaking news, but I just manage to get to Rep. Nita Lowey’s press conference on veteran health care benefits. We’ll have the story at 6 p.m. on RNN-TV (Channel 19 or [...]
Sen. John McCain spent more than five years as a POW during the Vietnam War. I’m sure I’m not the only one who think of this whenever he faces a particularly ugly political situation, for example, those ridiculous allegations during the 2000 South Carolina primary that he had fathered “a black baby” – really his [...]
Fresh from her own hospital stay, Rep. Nita Lowey (D-Harrison) is calling for improved health care for veterans. (Click on that link to read the press release.) She and 39 other U.S. representatives want the Secretary of Veterans Affairs report back within 90 days on steps taken to improve the quality of care at veterans’ [...]
As we get this blog rolling (scrolling?), we’d also like to link to other Web sites about veterans affairs and military issues. Send us your favorite sites, and we’ll make sure to link to them. (Hint: Words that appear in a different color in our blog entries can usually be clicked on [...]
"At Ease!" is a place for Army, Air Force, Navy, Marine and Coast Guard veterans to share their experiences and voice their opinions. It doesn't matter if you served during war or peacetime, overseas or stateside, active duty or reserves, as a draftee or volunteer - if you served in uniform, this is the place for you.
We'll let you know about interesting military and veterans stories we find, issues that might affect you, and local veterans events you might want to attend.
If you're a member of a veterans organization in the Lower Hudson Valley, let us know about your events, charity efforts and other news. We may also ask for your help in finding sources to interview for veterans stories in The Journal News and LoHud.com.
Rich Liebson is a "military brat" who grew up on bases in the U.S. and Germany during his father's 23-year career as an Air Force enlisted man. Rich enlisted in the Army in 1976 and until his discharge in 1980 was assigned to the 78th Engineer Battalion in Ettlingen, Germany, as a public information specialist and translator. He's been a reporter at The Journal News and its forerunner, the Reporter Dispatch, for more than 20 years. During that time he's covered a variety of beats and has written frequently about veterans and veterans issues.
Hema Easley was born and raised in India, where she worked as a reporter for The Associated Press and United Press International. While in India she wrote about the insurgency in Indian-controlled Kashmir and covered the 1999 India-Pakistan conflict in the mountains of Kashmir. She joined The Journal News in 2002. She has covered municipal government in Westchester and now covers on social services in Rockland as well as military issues.
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